SOCIAL INTERACTION

My teacher once told me. Well, one day she needed to talk with her neighbor. But she didn�t come to her neighbor's house; she just dialed the number of her home phone and talked over the phone until tens of minutes. She related her experience to provide example of how social interaction is increasingly limited by the development of technology.
At that time, the Internet has not rampant as now.Now, the Internet has been used by many people, even children, please imagine how social interaction increasingly cornered. We rarely see people talking to each other about their situation. Social interactions are now replaced by virtual social interaction. Everyone does not move from their places or their seats for reciprocating message or just greeting. Facebook and Twitter now has replaced the physical social interaction.
Can Facebook and Twitter replace a physical social interaction? It seems not, though it seems yes. By writing, people can pretend. Pretense cannot be done in physical social interaction. People know easily that someone is pretending. Mouth can say lie, but the movements cannot.
How many news about people who are deceived when they socialized with other people through Yahoo Messenger or facebook.
if the social interaction is decreased, we can imagine the danger we will face. I'm not being ridiculous. Let's look at an example written by Malcolm Gladwell in the beginning pages of his book: Outliers:
In 1950, heart attack had become epidemic in the United States. But it�s a miracle. In Roseto, Pennsylvania, it was very rare to find people aged less than 65 years got heart attack. Roseto people were high consumers of fat. 41 percent of calories they got, came from fat. They rarely exercised, they were heavy smokers and many were having problems of obesity. So how they could be secure from heart attack? The answer, because they: "... .. Visiting each other, stopping to chat in Italian on the street, cooking for the neighbors in their backyards".
Remarkable findings from a social activity that actually has been said by The Messenger of Allaah, Muhammad, centuries ago:
"Those who wants God exaggerates livelihood and wants longevity, should visit their brothers", is increasingly eroded.
What is sadder, even in places that used to be first place to socialize each other are now no longer function the same way again.
In angkringan, once a place to chat while enjoying snacks and hot sweet tea was now equipped with a hotspot. Visitors are too engrossed with their own laptops. No more small talk in the angkringan.
At the bus stop or in buses too, people are busy playing their cell phones to update their facebook.
Is this all we need to worry? No. It was not just be worried. We all have to be afraid!

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